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US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have finally come face to face in a historic summit in Singapore. Watch their first official remarks to to one another here.

June 12th 2018

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This photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency shows Kim Jong-un inspecting the Kumsanpho Fish Pickling Factory in South Hwanghae Province, North Korea. Picture: KCNA/AFPSource:AFP

KIM Jong-un is normally what you’d call a uniform dresser.

Like Mark Zuckerberg with his grey T-shirts or Steve Jobs and his black turtleneck sweater, the North Korean leader doesn’t like to think too hard about getting dressed every day.

The theory behind uniform dressing is that the less mental energy you spend thinking about clothes, the more brain space you have to focus on important stuff like making millions of dollars or destroying the world with a nuclear bomb.

Kim normally gets around in a dark grey suit buttoned up right to the neck.

He’s always photographed in this formal get up. He doesn’t do colour and he doesn’t do ties.

Kim Jong-un and President Donald Trump pictured in June during their meeting in Singapore. Picture: Evan Vucci/AFPSource:AP

But during a recent visit to a fish pickling plant in North Korea’s South Hwanghae Province, he decided to ditch the suit in favour of a floppy straw hat, an oversized white T-shirt and a broad grin.

Picture: KCNA via KNS/AFPSource:AFP

He was joined by his wife, Ri Sol-ju, who held his suit jacket while her husband tried to pretend his people were not starving and actually had heaps of pickled fish to eat.

He made a big song and dance about posing with lots of cans of food, in an attempt to deny repeated reports of famine across North Korea.

It’s worth noting all these photos were released by the official, state-run Korean Central News Agency, so we should take everything with a grain of salt.

“He said it is necessary to put to maximum use the aquatic resources in the West Sea to produce peculiar pickled fish goods with diverse fish species and sell them to citizens in the capital and those in the west coastal area,” the Korean Central News Agency reported.

Check out these pictures of Kim pretending we live in a world where his people aren’t starving, we are not on the brink of nuclear war and he can actually pull off that hat.